Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecherwas an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 June 1813
CountryUnited States of America
roots tree tribes
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
house tree gutters
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
hero tree saint
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
garden apples tree
What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
past roots tree
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
tree forests world
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
men tree leafs
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
plants-growing tree shade
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
flower tree huge
The tree is but a huge boquet.
tree liberty fruit
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
spring tree cows
Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
tree dies
Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
tree way fruit
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
compact himself man sells value
When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.